Morning All

Coffee morning: A very busy morning at the Arts Centre on Saturday so a huge thank you to everyone who managed to supply some very edible edibles, helped out in the café and popped in to spend some dosh! We took, by the way, £137.70; after a small deduction to the Arts Centre; this money goes straight into our coffers! Robin looked pleased!

So, thank you, (in no particular order), to Elaine, Brenda, Terry, Robin, Maurice, Stan, Sue, Rhona, Barry, Jenny, Michael and Freda. This is what we call a team effort! If we’ve missed anyone out – many apologies. Also, it was really nice to see Lucienne, as sprightly as ever and Vernon and his wife making a visit to Garstang! Even Bob Sapey popped in!

Humanity Competition. Many thanks, also, to all members who managed to enter prints and digital images into the competition to be judged. We thought that Carol Watson did an excellent job spending time on each photograph and giving her thoughts, her positives and her constructive criticism to them all. Attached are the full results for you to look at.

And, a big well done to Tim for not only winning 2 of the 4 sections (digital monochrome and digital colour) but his image – Spinning with Grandma – winning the overall prize – ‘best in show’! Congratulations Tim!

Attached to this newsletter is an image from our club member Ted  – from South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. He says: In preparation for the talk on the 20th of March … “Shackleton & South Georgia” a picture from Grytviken July 2023…Thanks Ted, so glad you are still receiving and reading the newsletters!

Notices

Events Cup.

Thanks to all members who have voted for the top 8 destinations; if you haven’t cast your selection yet, there is still time – but only just.

Member’s Evening 3^rd April – Show and Tell.

Please take part, this is a great opportunity for everyone to take part and a great chance to show recent work, talk about their images and possibly receive constructive comments from members.

• Perhaps show any images or maybe those that are often very different from those entered in competitions.
• Include those that went wrong or you weren’t happy about and why, or just didn’t work out!
• Number of images: as many, within reason, as you want to show.
• Open theme, colour and/or mono.

Calendar images

Following on from last weeks newsletter, and from various discussions, the deadline of April 21^st has now been extended to Sunday May 5^th.

• When all the images are in Mike will present them on Wednesday 8^th May (that’s also AGM evening), in a random order, with no names, and all members present will have a chance to vote.
• Each image can be scored out of a maximum of 20.
• The top 36 will be sent to the Arts Centre committee and they will pick the 12 they want for the 2025 calendar.

Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union

Attached is the Annual Individuals Competition 2024 for Saturday 18th May & Sunday 19th May.

A full rules & guidelines for both competitions will follow but the attached is a summary of key dates.

When the rules appear, we will send them out. Any questions? Speak to Mike or Lewis on Wednesday.

Up and coming programme of events:

• March 20^th – Keith Snell PhD EFIAP MPSA LRPS* – ‘Live’; Shackleton & South Georgia. Featuring landscape and wildlife photography during an expedition to South Georgia and Antarctica, following Shackleton’s renowned journey.
• March 20^th – Anything Goes Competition – last date for entry.
• March 27^th – No meeting – Committee meeting.
• April 3^rd – Members evening – various announcements and discussions plus show and tell; see above.
• April 10^th – Alan Cameron, ‘live’ – Costa Rica

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis

Morning All

A keen easterly yesterday and today; when is going to get, at least, a little warmer! Roll on spring and warmer weather!

Notices

Message from a Mr Jack Fell

Hello,
I have a couple of Cokin camera lens mounts and a few filters which I would like to pass on to any interested user.
Please contact Mike/Lewis by email, initially, if anybody is interested and we’ll pass on your details to Jack. There are about a dozen individual items.
Regards,
Jack.

Calendar images

Reminder and important!

Images of Garstang for the 2025 calendar:

• Maximum of 5 images, per member, submitted by Sunday April 21^st. These images can be historical. We really do need, if possible, all members to have a go and submit their images so that the Arts Centre committee have a great choice to choose from for the final 12.
• Images of? Well, restricted to Garstang and the town boundary. We just need to use our common sense and judgment on the extent of the boundary!
• Images to be in colour, sRGB, within or maximum of 1600 x 1200, ratio of 3:2, and landscape and please add a title.
• Please send them in to info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk
• When all the images are in Mike will present them on Wednesday 24^th April, in a random order, with no names, and all members present will have a chance to vote.
• Each image can be scored out of a maximum of 20.
• The top 36 will be sent to the Arts Centre committee and they will pick the 12 they want for the 2025 calendar.

If you need any help/information PLEASE just ask – it’s no problem!

Exhibition:

Exhibition – Deadline for prints has been extended to Wednesday, 13^th March; These prints are ones that have NOT be given an award in any of our competitions, and they could also be prints that for some reason you haven’t entered.

We really need about another 10 more!

Member’s Evening 3^rd April – Show and Tell.

Please take part, this is a great opportunity for everyone to take part and a great chance to show recent work, talk about their images and possibly receive constructive comments from members.

• Perhaps show any images or maybe those that are often very different from those entered in competitions.
• Include those that went wrong or you weren’t happy about and why, or just didn’t work out!
• Number of images: as many, within reason, as you want to show.
• Open theme, colour and/or mono.

Events Cup.

Don’t forget to vote for your top 8 destinations from the Events destinations list that went out last week. Many thanks, though, to all who have voted so far!

Coffee morning – Saturday 16^th March at the Arts Centre. We are looking for cakes etc to sell on the morning so, please contribute something edible! Please let Mike know so we can organise accordingly – ta!

Up and coming programme of events:

• March 13^th – Judging of the Humanity Competition by Carol Watson DPAGB ABPE QPSA.
• March 16^th – (Saturday), coffee morning hosted by us.
• March 20^th – Keith Snell – ‘Live’; Shackleton & South Georgia.
• March 20^th – Anything Goes Competition – last date for entry.
• March 27^th – No meeting – Committee meeting.
• April 3^rd – Members evening – various announcements and discussions plus show and tell. 

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis

Afternoon All

Heatwave comes to an end today, at lunchtime, according to the BBC; so, a little late today ‘cos I’ve been gardening! Thunder now rumbling around here in Forton. I have noticed lately that there are quite a few fallen leaves on the ground – signs of the approaching autumn.

Many thanks to all members who managed to put together 12 – in – 12 and show them during our last meeting – great effort; a new ’12 month mission’ for members is under development/construction – news soon! If you have an ideas, please let us know!

Internal competitions

Many thanks to Lewis for his reminder on how to enter images for our 5 internal competitions, the Projected Digital Images – PDI’s.

A few gentle reminders:

• In each of the Club competitions a member may submit up to a maximum of nine entries, with no more than three entries allowed in any one section.

• There are 4 sections: (a) Colour Prints (b) Monochrome Prints (c) Colour Projected Digital Images (d) Monochrome Projected Digital Images.

• In order to ensure that images are projected properly by the club’s equipment, DPI entries to the clubs’ competitions must be supplied in jpeg format and in sRGB colour space.

• The maximum dimensions of the image must be 1600 pixels (horizontal) x 1200 pixels (vertical).

• Digital images should be submitted on a USB stick (which will be returned) and members should create a new folder for each competition, with the folder name being your name followed by the competition name and date.

• For example: Mike Jenner Events Cup 2023 Monochrome

• For example: Mike Jenner Events Cup 2023 Colour

• So, in the above 2 examples, I’ve created 2 folders because I’m entering some monochrome PDI’s and some colour PDI’s.

• Filenames must be a maximum of 40 characters and contain a title and your competition number. Please use a capital letter at the start of each title word and insert an underscore between the title and your competition number.

• Example: Lytham Pier_123.jpg (where 123 is your competition number).

If you are still unsure/confused PLEASE email in or chat to us at the next meeting. We are here to help you and we want every member to understand the ‘system’ and enjoy the competitions. Don’t be afraid or be put off!

If you do make a mistake, we will help you for next time.

This is a club for everyone!

All the competition rules are on our website – click on Information and then look under Club competition information and then click on Competition rules.

Notices

Photo competition which we discussed on Wednesday evening; this will be a competition for 11 – 16yr olds and the theme of the competition will be, “Garstang: through your eyes”.

Images can only be captured during the half term break, Mon 12th Feb – Friday 16th Feb 2024. All images must be captured with a mobile phone.

Michael, who is organising this, is still looking for 2/3 volunteers to help out. As we said we don’t think it will be an arduous task and should be fun; if you are interested PLESAE get in touch on info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk

The Bob Robinson Trophy – attached are then rules, as a reminder.

Any member interested please send in a maximum of 3 entries for consideration.

Some images have been sent in but we need more please – deadline date is Thursday 14^th September; please send to  info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and the subject is RB Trophy – cheers.

Project/Development/Challenge! – Feedback on an image

There are 2 x Member’s evenings – 27th September and 25th October coming up.

For 27th September:

The idea is for any club member to submit a maximum of 3 images for a constructive critique by John and he will guarantee that at least 1, if not 2 images, from each member, will be critiqued.

Theme = ‘Open;’ images taken in the last 5/6 months if poss.

All images submitted and shown will be anonymous.

How to send them in:

• In an ideal world please send the images in the form of a DNG file
• OR, send them in as a TIFF file
• OR if you are struggling send in as a JPEG file, that will be fine.

If members are using Lightroom then in the Export Panel, under File Settings, the image format can be changed to DNG or Tiff.

Deadline date: Images in by Wednesday 20th September.

JPEG Images can be sent to the usual email address: info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk  and the subject – Image Feedback.

DNG and TIFF files must be sent in via Wetransfer.

If you are struggling then please ask during next week’s meeting or phone Mike on 07340 314408

Exhibition

September Exhibition; winners, HC and C – by next week please; 13^th September. PLEASE – on the back of each print, label it with the title, your name, which competition and the prize. This is a great help to Maurice!

Up and coming programme of events

September 13th – Brian Law ARPS CPAGB – ‘Realising Your Potential’.

September 20th – Geoff Reader – Snowdonia & The Peak District. PLUS, last date for your entries to the Events Competition. That’s Projected Digital Images (PDI’s) and prints.

September 27th – Members Evening – see above

October 4th – Harry Emmett – Towards CPAGB (The Credit award of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain) – Prints

October 11th – Garry Cook – Street photography and a project in Israel

October 18th – Events Cup Competition: Judged by Nicki Greenwood CPAGB

October 25th – Member’s Evening

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis

Morning All

Just as I’ve got my warmer coats ready summer has broken out; heat wave, momentarily, upon us. Great for us retirees, warm/hot and quiet!

I walked along the local canal (Lancaster) yesterday and Dragonflies abound; far too quick though, the best one was just out of focus! Never mind practice makes perfect – so I’m told!

Anyway……

Trip to Heysham and area with Morecambe Camera Club (MCC).

We had a very enjoyable trip out to Heysham, last Thursday, and successfully met up with 7/8 members of MCC, and, most importantly, the rain kept away!

They took us a walk incorporating – a look over Heysham Port and Power station, The ‘Ship Sculpture, a walk along the coast overlooking Half Moon Bay, past the Seaside Medieval Chapel and finished up at St Peter’s Church. There the light ran out!

Big thanks here to Graham (Dean) – who, incidentally, is giving us a talk next February 14^th – and other members for their time and trouble in looking after us – they were all very welcoming and it was great to chat to other members of a different club.

‘Plein Air,’ yesterday, in Garstang.

Many thanks to all members (there were 8 of us) who had the time to roam around the town chatting (and maybe interrupting!) some or all of the 34 artists who took part in this, now annual, competition. It was a cracking day weather wise and atmospherically and busy; local trades people must have been very pleased!

If we have time this coming Wednesday, we will show a selection of the images taken and we will anyway send all of them to the Vanessa, at the Arts Centre, for them to use or delete!

Notices

Bob Robinson Trophy

The rules and guidelines for The Bob Robinson Trophy, to be held on 8 October 2023, were attached last week; basic summary below:

We are asking any member interested to send in a maximum of 3 entries for consideration.

• Entries are in the form of Projected Digital Images (PDI) – Open category
• Max of 8 images per club (if more than 8, entries will be judged by M Orr)
• No more than 2 entries from 1 member out of the 8 submitted
• Images are entered in order of priority e.g., best ones first.
• First 7 images are the formal entry, the 8th is held for tie breaks.
• Entrants must not hold photo accreditations
• PDI dimensions 1600px Width x 1200px Height, maximum, (jpg, sRGB colour)
• No images from previous LCPU competitions.

Online entry opens on Saturday 26th August and closes on Saturday 17th September 2023.

Michael is organising our entries – thanks Michael! – so….

Please email in to the usual email address – info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk

and hopefully we can, as a club, put in an entry together.

September Exhibition:

This is the clubs’ exhibition, held in the Arts Centre, for all 1st, 2nd and third print winners PLUS any print that received a commended or highly commended award in last season’s internal competitions.

Maurice is organising this exhibition (many thanks, as always, Maurice), and he would like all prints to be handed in, at the latest, by Wednesday 13th September. You can bring them in this coming Wednesday, 6^th September.

Please make the effort to bring these in as it is a great ‘show-case’ for the club and the exhibition lasts from Saturday 23rd September to Thursday 19th October.

PLEASE – on the back of each print, label it with the title, your name, which competition and the prize. This is a great help to Maurice!

Up and coming programme of events:

Wednesday September 6th – First meeting of the new ‘season.’ Our first club meeting of the ‘season.’ We will be welcoming you all back to the regular club get-togethers and, hopefully, welcoming some new members.

Programme for the evening will include, amongst many things, the 12 – in – 12 (or any number, really!), project launched last September plus other images.

September 13th – Brian Law ARPS CPAGB – ‘Realising Your Potential’

September 20th – Geoff Reader – Snowdonia & The Peak District. PLUS, last date for your entries to the Events Competition.

September 27th – Members Evening – details to follow.

Don’t forget! Calendar

Have you bought ‘THE’ calendar yet? If not please do so as all monies raised will go towards funding the Arts Centre, on which we all depend!

So, Sue will be bringing some in on 6th September and they are only £8.50 each – what a giveaway!

Finally

As mentioned last week: It’s that time of year folks! Subscriptions (sorry) are due; just to remind you the fees for this year are £52 which includes the £28 paid to the Arts Centre.

You can pay by bank transfer BACS (details on the website – under ‘Information’ and then click on ‘Membership form’ and the account name, number and sort code are there) or by cash or by cheque payable to Garstang Camera Club.

Robin will be ready with his receipt book during our first meeting!

That’s all folks, and enjoy the late summer!

Mike and Lewis

Morning All

Here’s me thinking of gardening this morning; heavy showers and meteorological calendar always places the beginning of autumn on September 1; so much for our summer, eh?

Oaklands

Huge thanks to Maurice and Freda for their ‘sterling’ efforts last Sunday at Oaklands. Yes, the attendance was down but we had a good time chatting to quite a few people in a very convivial and (almost) hot weather and certainly a warm atmosphere. Possible members? The proof, as always, will be on the evening of the 6^th.

Message from Paul Ferguson (Coordinator, Oaklands) – Everyone at Oaklands want to thank you for your attendance on Sunday. We were so lucky with the weather and lots of people have said how much they enjoyed the day. In particular our residents had a great time and that is always the most important thing for us.

We were unfortunate that the attendance was low and we hope that this did not spoil the day for you given how much this will have restricted your opportunities to showcase your brilliant work.

Notices

Bob Sapey:

We had a chat to Bob at Oaklands (regarding the astrophotography for the Milky Way photography) and he is keeping a beady eye on all weather conditions so, watch this space. He has suggested, as well, to have a practice ‘set-up’ of photography gear in daylight sometime soon, only for an hour or so; it’s just better to ensure all is well in daylight! – I’ll keep all posted on any arrangements.

Just to remind: We will be aiming to take photos with a wide angle lens (16-24 FF) with a 20-30 second exposure at an ISO of about 3200, so tripod is essential.

We talked about going to Ribblehead Viaduct so I guess we’d be leaving Garstang about 9pm.

So, if you’re still interested in trying some Milky Way photography – let us know and we will keep you on a circulation list. Don’t forget it will probably mean a bit ‘last minute dot com’!

Garstang Club Competition:

This was a suggestion from Stan, a while ago – thanks Stan!

We discussed this at some length at the recent committee meeting and Michael (Orr) very kindly volunteered to coordinate and ‘steer’ this idea. THANKS Michael!

In a nutshell, the idea is for the camera club to arrange a photography competition, in Garstang, and after much discussion it was decided to limit it to the schools in Garstang (separated into 2/3 age group sections) and the images must be taken on an iPhone.

This is obviously our first go at something like this so it will take, I’m sure, quite a bit of planning. So, if any member would like to assist Michael in this project, please email in or chat to us on the first meeting on 6^th September. We are looking, in theory for 2/3 volunteers, so that any workload is not arduous and it should be great fun.

It will help ‘spot-light’ the club, and we think it will, maybe, introduce photography to a younger audience and hopefully ‘fire’ their imagination! And, although it will probably not increase the membership, maybe it will rub off on parents, who knows!

Bob Robinson:

Please find attached the rules and guidelines for The Bob Robinson Trophy, to be held on 8 October 2023.

Online entry opens on Saturday 26^th August and closes on Saturday 17^th September 2023.

Michael is organising our entries – thanks again Michael! – so….

The attached is hopefully self-explanatory! If not please email in on the usual email address – info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and hopefully we can answer any queries. More discussion, if needed, during our first meeting.

September Exhibition:

This is the clubs’ exhibition, held in the Arts Centre, for all 1^st, 2^nd and third print winners PLUS any print that received a commended or highly commended award in last season’s internal competitions.

Maurice is organising this exhibition (many thanks, as always, Maurice), and he would like all prints to be handed in, at the latest, by Wednesday 13^th September. We have attached a full list of all entries (both prints and DPI’s) so if you can’t remember please check in out!

This list does, as mentioned, include the PDI competition winners as well, and we have always understood, print copies of these are eligible for display.

Please make the effort to bring these in as it is a great ‘show-case’ for the club and the exhibition lasts from Saturday 23^rd September to Thursday 19^th October.

PLEASE – on the back of each print, label it with the title, your name, which competition and the prize. This is a great help to Maurice!

Club Website:

We are revamping and renewing some parts of our website and one of the areas is the ‘Members Gallery.’ The committee have decided this area needs some updating so all images presently on display will, by the end of September, be deleted.

So…. any members who wishes to have up to 6 of their images displayed will be asked to send them in at an appropriate date in the near future. More information will follow soon.

Calendar

Have you bought ‘THE’ calendar yet? If not please do so as all monies raised will go towards funding the Arts Centre, on which we all depend!

So, Sue will be bringing some in on 6^th September and they are only £8.50 each – what a giveaway!

Up and coming programme of events:

Wednesday August 30th – No meeting.

Thursday August 31st – Trip to Heysham and area with Morecambe Camera Club (MCC), 7.00 – 9pm. Please note the time change. Thanks to all who have put their name forward and below are directions if you are travelling there solo!

If you put 36 Knowlys Road LA3 2PF into Google maps, it will probably direct you from M6 jctn 34 along the Bay Gateway. You will cross Morecambe Road and go through 2 more sets of traffic lights. Shortly after 2nd set of lights take 3rd exit at a roundabout (signed retail park and Vickers Industrial Estate. Take 2nd exit at next roundabout then follow windy road for about a mile. Turn left at traffic lights onto Heysham Road. Turn right shortly after pelican crossing and you’re on Knowly Road. Hope this makes sense.

If anyone uses What3Words then enter ///clocks.shirt.stress

Last Call: Please email in to us so that we can begin to arrange car sharing, if required, and let MCC know numbers.

Saturday September 2nd – ‘Paint Garstang’. This is the 2nd ‘Plein Air’ open Art Competition organised by the Arts Centre. ‘Painting’ begins at 9am until 4pm and the judging and presentation of prizes is 4pm – 5pm.

They have asked us, at the camera club, to capture the day’s events as part of the occasion. We would really appreciate members to take part, even if only for a couple of hours! Considering the current weather conditions, it may give a whole new meaning to the term ‘Water’ colours!’

If you are willing to partake in this venture, please just let us know – cheers! Many thanks to all who have ‘signed-up’ again, many thanks to all those who are bringing their cameras!

Wednesday September 6th – First meeting of the new ‘season.’ Our first club meeting of the ‘season.’ We will be welcoming you all back to the regular club get-togethers and, hopefully, welcoming some new members.

Programme for the evening will include, amongst many things, the 12 – in – 12 (or any number, really!), project launched last September.

September 13^th – Brian Law ARPS CPAGB – ‘Realising Your Potential’

September 20^th – Geoff Reader – Snowdonia & The Peak District. PLUS, last date for your entries to the Events Competition.

September 27^th – Members Evening – details to follow.

Finally

It’s that time of year folks! Subscriptions (sorry) are due; just to remind you the fees for this year are £52 which includes the £28 paid to the Arts Centre.

You can pay by bank transfer BACS (details on the website – under ‘Information’ and then click on ‘Membership form’ and the account name, number and sort code are there) or by cash or by cheque payable to Garstang Camera Club.

Robin will be ready with his receipt book during our first meeting!

A reminder – you will also be members of L&CPU and PAGB. (Regional and National Camera Club Federations because membership fees are included in your subscription to Garstang Camera Club). What a bargain!

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis

Afternoon All

Listening to the cricket as I’m typing this; 34 for 0; Ashes not lost yet!

Thanks to all members for bringing in and showing all their images taken recently when we went to Cockersand Abbey and Plover Scar Lighthouse. Really nice to see all the various interpretations of the scenery; including some gestures from the club secretary!

As we are sure you are aware we will have our usual ‘stand’ at Garstang Show on Saturday 5^th August. If any member would like us to display their prints please bring them to the Arts Centre on Wednesday 26^th July – 2 or 3 per member would be great – cheers!

Up and coming programme of events:

Wednesday 12th July: Events Cup, 4th destination, is Brockholes; Map attached for your perusal.

Some basic details:

•      Nature reserve and car park is open seven days a week, 6am – 9pm.

•      Visitor Village and toilets open seven days a week, 10am – 5pm.

•      £5 parking all day.

•      Café Peckish will be open daily: Monday – Sunday, 10am-5pm.

This outing is instead of the weekly meeting at the Arts Centre.

If you need a lift to Brockholes, just email in and we are sure we can organise something.

Sunday 16th July: British Cycling ‘Lancaster GP’. Details in previous week’s newsletters. If you are thinking about this please contact Mike for details; Mike photographing in the morning only.

Wednesday 19th July: Club outing to Scorton; Park in Scorton and meet outside the Priory Café at 7.30pm. Plenty to ‘take’ in and around plus later possible light trial photography from the M6 bridge – long exposure photography – sun sets at 9.30pm.

Wednesday 26^th July: Images from Stan and Mike about an outing planned the on Thursday 13^th July at Southport Hillside Golf Club plus other items scheduled, – more info later.

Wednesday 2^nd August: Details to follow.

Saturday 5th August – Garstang Show. Please don’t forget we will have a stand at the show and we look forward to welcoming you all throughout the day! AND, The Garstang Show is the FINAL Events Cup Destination. More details will follow later.

That’s all folks – cricket now 81 for 2; getting slightly nervous!

Cheers

Mike and Lewis

Morning All

Glad we didn’t book a short break to Paris this weekend!

Not impressed by the weather – I know the garden needed rain but there’s rain and there’s rain! And the forecast for the next 10 days……! Maybe photographic opportunities?

Many thanks to all members who ventured out last Wednesday to Cockersand Abbey and Plover Scar Lighthouse there were 10/11 of us! It was an interesting evening; chilly, very breezy but we were rewarded with an excellent sunset, albeit at 9.47 plus!

Just a reminder: will all who took part please bring in some images (or send them to Mike), – good, bad or indifferent, to ‘show and tell’ this coming Wednesday, 5^th July. It will be good to see everyone’s interpretation of similar ‘scenes.’ Ta!

Message from Ray Lee:

Hi. I’m just enquiring if one of your members may be interested in doing some promotional photos of a small property in Garstang that we are looking to let out as a holiday let.

Best regards

Ray

If you are interested, please email back in to us and we will forward your interest to Ray directly.

Message from Lewis: Reminder!

You may recall that a few months ago we were approached about the possibility of supplying photographs to be displayed in the new residential/care home being built in Bowgreave.

They have decided to ask for 5 xA3 photographs to be displayed one in each lounge. We have agreed to send digital copies of photographs to Sheron.

The remit is fairly loose- photographs taken in or around Garstang including, for example, the local area of the Fylde coast, Bleasdale, Forest of Bowland etc. They need to be suitable for display in this environment. We guess that content and subject will be deemed more important than technical excellence. If you have any photos, you think would be suitable and would like to offer for this worthwhile venture, please email them to the club email by Saturday July 8th.

Many thanks to those members who have already sent their images in.

Notes from a Meeting of the Executive Committee of

Garstang & District Arts:

• You will be pleased to note that the Schoolroom will be open and in use from this coming Tuesday, 4^th July.
• The Garstang Summer Celebration of Arts and Music starts next Thursday, 6^th July, with the first of the Lunchtime Concerts. The printed programme of events will be ready soon but everything is listed on the Arts Centre website.
• Garstang Calendar 2024 – just a few amendments needed and Muriel will visit Colin Cross to finalise the printing. These will be on sale at Garstang Show.

Up and coming programme of events:

Wednesday 5th July: Please ‘show and tell’ about any images you may wish to share, including those from the previous week. Please bring them along on a USB ‘stick’ or send them to me and I will add them to the PowerPoint presentation. Plus, a small presentation on 2023 Bird Photography award winners with backstories, some interesting winning Travel Images (definitely not holiday snaps!), and other images which, I hope, you will enjoy!

Wednesday 12th July: Events Cup, 4th destination, is Brockholes; Map attached for your perusal.

Some basic details:

• Nature reserve and car park is open seven days a week, 6am – 9pm.
• Visitor Village and toilets open seven days a week, 10am – 5pm.
• £5 parking all day.
• Café Peckish will be open daily: Monday – Sunday, 10am-5pm.

This outing is instead of the weekly meeting at the Arts Centre.

Sunday 16th July: British Cycling ‘Lancaster GP’. Details in previous week’s newsletter. If you are thinking about this please contact Mike for details.

Wednesday 19th July: Some images from Stan and Mike about an outing planned the previous Thursday and other items scheduled.

Early reminder:

Saturday 5^th August – Garstang Show. Please don’t forget we will have a stand at the show and we look forward to welcoming you all throughout the day! AND, The Garstang Show is the FINAL Events Cup Destination. More details will follow later.

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis

Morning All

Many thanks to all members who managed to bring some images in to the club meeting last Wednesday; it was really great to see the ‘show and tell’ images in a relaxed manner! Some very interesting ones indeed! Don’t forget to get those horizon’s straight!

Message from Stan:

On the 16th July and 20th August there are Skydiving events at Cockerham in aid of Darian House Children’s Hospice charity. If any members would like to join Stan to photograph one or both of these events, please contact him. His contact details are: –

stanley.pearson@talktalk.net

Telephone 01772 864120

Message from Maurice:

Camera Club exhibition. We will be exhibiting all winning prints, colour and monochrome, from last year’s 5 interval competitions; these will include 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd print winners plus all highly commended and commended ones. They will be hung in the Arts Centre on Saturday 23^rd September and the exhibition will run until Thursday 19^th October. 

If you have forgotten (!) all the winners are on our website, under Competition Results.

So, please, begin to dig out those winners and set them aside ‘cos we will send out, in a future newsletter, when we need them in. Many thanks.

Up and coming programme of events:

Wednesday 28^th June: Camera club outing to Cockersand Abbey and Plover Scar Lighthouse. Details: there are several attachments: where we are going to meet (Stork Hotel indicated plus an arrow) and either car share or drive in a convoy from there: and, the actual route (in 2 parts) to the car parking area.

We will meet at 7.15pm (opposite the Stork Hotel) and drive to the car park at 7.30pm. High tide is at 8.13pm and the weather appears, at the time of typing this, to be good with the sunset at 9.47pm.

It’s a great walk and not too far and will take in Cockersand Abbey and The Plover Scar Lighthouse amongst other possible bird/wildlife; nothing guaranteed though!

ANY problems or questions just email in as usual – ta.

Wednesday 5^th July: Please ‘show and tell’ about any images you may wish to share, including those from the previous week. Please bring them along on a USB ‘stick’ or send them to me and I will add them to the PowerPoint presentation. Plus, a small presentation on 2023 Bird Photography award winners with backstories and other winners!

Wednesday 12th July: Events Cup, 4th destination, is Brockholes; further info later. This outing is instead of the weekly meeting at the Arts Centre.

Sunday 16^th July: British Cycling ‘Lancaster GP’. Details in last week’s newsletter.

Wednesday 19^th July: to be organised!

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis

Morning All

We thought that Nick did a brilliant job judging the ‘Anything Goes Competition’ on Wednesday evening, given that there was an unintentional time pressure!

He gave a full feedback and positive construction criticism on each image. Great.

Notices

Anything Goes results:

ANYYTHING GOES COMPETITION 2023

RESULTS

ANYTHING GOES COLOUR PDI

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MIKE JENNER                     THE OLD WATERMILL COOMBE GILL

JOHN MOXHAM                  ON THE SCENT

MICHAEL ORR                     IS IT A GOAL

SARAH KEAST                     CHOUGHED WITH THIS SHOT

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MAURICE BARKER                GRUB UP

JANET WHITLOW                CHAMPION BLUE FACED LEICESTER TUP

STAN PEARSON                   REFLECTIONS

MIKE JENNER                     ROUND THE CORNER

ANYTHING GOES MONO PDI

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MAURICE BARKER                ONE MORE FENCE

MICHAEL ORR                     WAITING FOR GOD

JOHN MOXHAM                  WISLEY SCULPTURES

MIKE JENNER                     LITTLEDALE CHURCH

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MAURICE BARKER                FIRST RIDE

LEWIS THOMPSON               BLUE TIT IN FLIGHT

LEWIS THOMPSON               ISLANDS

MICHAEL ORR                     SUPERFICIAL WOMAN

SARAH KEAST                     NOW I JUST HAVE TO LAND IT

ANYTHING GOES COLOUR PRINT

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LEWIS THOMPSON               IS THAT ME?

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JOHN MOXHAM                  LONG EARED OWL

LEWIS THOMPSON               CLOUD INVERSION ON BUTTERMERE

STAN PEARSON                   FLYING ILLUMINATED MODEL AIRCRAFT INTO FIREWORKS

ANYTHING GOES MONO PRINT

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STAN PEARSON                   BURSTING THE BALLOON

ANYTHING GOES COLOUR PDI

1        ANNE HARDY            GOLDEN EAGLE LANDING

2        JOHN MOXHAM         MALE KESTREL IN FLIGHT

3        LEWIS THOMPSON     GOLDFINCH FIGHT

ANYTHING GOES MONO PDI

1        STAN PEARSON         CLOSE ENCOUNTER

2        JOHN MOXHAM         FEMALE SPARROWHAWK

3        STAN PEARSON         DAMP TRACK

ANYTHING GOES COLOUR PRINT

1        JOHN MOXHAM         WOULD YOU LIKE A CIGARETTE?

2        JOHN MOXHAM         EMERGING KINGFISHER

3        ROBIN SHORROCK      COOLING AFTERNOON DIP

ANYTHING GOES MONO PRINT

1        STAN PEARSON         STEEPLE CHASE

2        SARAH KEAST           FEATHERING THE NEST

3        JOHN MOXHAM         MARE AND FOAL

JUDGES OVERALL WINNER: WOULD YOU LIKE A CIGARETTE?

Calendar images

Last call to submit entries for the calendar; many thanks to all who have done so already. Definite deadline – noon on Wednesday 26^th April.

Presentation evening

Again, very last call for members to partake in this annual event on Wednesday 17^th April. Very shortly we have to give final numbers to Betty and her team. Many thanks to all those who are able to make it!

Events Cup

First destination is to Kendal on Saturday 29^th April. Complying with the rules; to participate in and enter into the competition, you must be a member and you must only visit on that day indicated.

A day consists of 24 hours; so, you could start at 1 minute past midnight and then continue until the following midnight!

Attached is a plan of Kendal indicating the boundary of the competition.

There are numerous car parks; a quick check on Google suggests there are at least 16!

Need a lift – car share? If you want to go but struggling with transport of just want to car share to split the cost PLEASE email in and Lewis and Mike will do our best to sort it out.

Wednesday 26^th April

After Tim’s presentation we will all be judging and voting on the images submitted for the Garstang Calendar.

So, PLEASE, bring a pen/pencil! We will supply the paper.

You will be asked to judge and score each image between 10 and 20 marks.

All the images will be shown as a slide show first of all, and will then be shown individually.

Out of all the entries we will need to pick the top 36. These images will then be sent to the Arts Centre committee who will then choose the 12 final images for each month of the 2024 calendar.

So please make the effort to get to the meeting on Wednesday, not only to listen to Tim’s talk, but to join in the judging!

AGM

Hopefully you will have noticed that the AGM is to be held soon. This gives you, the members, an opportunity to put forward any ideas or thoughts you may have with regard to the running of your club. If you have any suggestions please email in and we can put it on the agenda. This is your chance to influence the direction of our club to hopefully change and/or improve what we offer!

Up and coming programme of events:

• Wednesday April 26th – presentation by Tim titled “West Africa”; plus, voting on the calendar images
• Saturday 29th April – Events Cup, 1st destination – Kendal
• Wednesday May 3rd – Presentation by Stan titled “Local Sports”. Calendar submission results; the 36 chosen.
• Tuesday May 9th – Events Cup, 2nd destination – Cleveleys seafront, Cleveleys town centre and the Fleetwood Shipwrecks. Details to follow nearer the time.
• Wednesday 10th – AGM.
• Thursday May 11th – Combined photo walks with Morecambe Camera Club here in Garstang – details to follow.
• Wednesday 17th – Presentation of Certificates and trophies.
• Wednesday May 24th – Review of images from May 11th at the Arts Centre.

On coffee/tea duty this coming Wednesday are Barry and Rhona – many thanks

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis